A funny
thing happened during my visit to my nearby post office. The weatherman
had been warning about the impending heat wave and what to do to prepare
for it including not leaving children and dogs in the cars – a no-brainer,
but people still have to be reminded. But should I be surprised? Some
parents go off to work and forget they have a child in the back seat in
hot cars and they die. What the weather people were telling us was how
to basically keep cool.

When
I arrived at the post office, I thought maybe the electricity was out
because it was nearly dark except for the light coming in through the
windows. Once I got inside, I saw two lights over the counter were on.
I asked, “What’s the deal?” The postmaster proceeded to explain to me
the lights give off too much heat. Then he told me how when his inside
office window is open, the temperature goes up ten degrees. So I asked,
“Why do you have your windows open during the hot days when we are told
to keep them closed?”

We had
a conversation back and forth but I could tell he was getting annoyed
with my inquiries. Finally, he went into his office, opened the door to
the post office lobby and said to me, “See, when the window is closed,
the temperature is lower.” Well, there was the problem. He was referring
to venetian blinds being closed or open and he was saying “the window.”

I laughed
and said, “There’s our problem. You aren’t saying what you mean.” In turn,
he said to me, “Well, in Texas…” I laughed and said “But you aren’t in
Texas, you’re in Oregon and that is a blind, not a window!” And then I
commented, “This is how wars begin.” Is it dangerous to believe wars are
always the result of misunderstandings? This happens not only between
nations but it happens between parents and children, husbands and wives
and even between friends, political parties and churches.

I later
told the story to two of his employees. They laughed and told me additional
stories so I felt better knowing most Oregonians talk the same language.
It’s the transplants that give us trouble and I’m sure that is the same
in other parts of the country.

If we
can get into these disagreements in our own country, can you imagine the
problems involved when America tries to shove our culture down the throats
of individuals in other countries? Perhaps this is another reason why
President George Washington told America never to get entangled in the
affairs of other nations because so many misunderstandings can happen.
It is especially devastating when different religions are involved. The
subjects of religion and politics are simply off limits at many family
gatherings and understandably so.

President
Bush said on October 6, 2005 that “Wars are not won without sacrifice
and this (Iraq) war will require more sacrifice.” But I say we’d have
no wars if the leaders who want these wars would have to put themselves
or their children on the front lines. But lets face it. Sinister minds
in high places in whatever country can always come up with a way to start
a war to accomplish their hidden agenda and that agenda has always been
One World Government. And then we’ll have to have more wars to see who
will be the chosen dictator.

Perhaps
the hearts of our leaders that want to “democratize” the world are in
the right place but dreadfully misguided. If we continue to fight the
wars of other nations defending their borders while ours are wide open
and if U.S. taxpayers must continue to pay the bills of other nations
while the needs of Americans are left unattended, we will become bankrupt
and fall just like the other empires did before us. And this Iraq war
has a dividing affect as bad as Viet Nam.

The
bodies of millions of innocent men which lie in military graves throughout
the world serve as a reminder to the true meaning of “promoting the general
welfare” so I won’t go into detail about the lives destroyed, those killed
and maimed, post traumatic stress disorders, flashbacks, dreams and memories
of war that those who serve go through and the costs of paying death benefits,
disability, hospital and doctor bills and counseling. The only winners
are the capitalist corporations and their stockholders when they go into
the countries to rebuild that which we’ve helped destroy. [Read]

President
John F. Kennedy said in the year of his missile crisis: “We must face
the fact that the U.S. is neither omnipotent nor omniscient and that we
are only six percent of the world’s population and that we cannot impose
our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind. We cannot right every wrong
or reverse each adversity and that therefore there cannot be an American
solution to every world problem.”

But
some would say the vital security interests of the U.S. were at stake
after 9-11 and with that anniversary just around the corner, the Internet
is overflowing with theories that refute that possibility. Let’s be honest.
Wars and rumors of war have been fought as a result of the birth pangs
of the forthcoming world government. Through incredible betrayal and intrigue
these wars are merely the testing ground to world government as powerful
factions battle for supremacy.

It all
started in the Middle East when Abraham and Sarah stepped out of the will
of God. He told the couple they’d be given a son. They were to be patient
but Sarah believing she was getting too old to conceive told Abraham to
sleep with her handmaiden. As a result, Ishmael (who represents the Muslims/Arabs)
was born. Later Sarah had Isaac (who represents Israel) and then she sent
Ishmael and his mother away and there has been a hatred between these
step-cousins ever since. And because America has always supported Israel,
we then became the enemy too.

It happens
all the time in our own lives. Children marry outside the religious beliefs
of their parents and when the children come along, there is dissension
about how they should be raised. Israelites were told to marry within
their own race, but they begin to marry Moabite women. The same problems
developed. And I am sure readers could offer many more additional examples.
It all boils down to rebellion on our part and our refusal to stay within
the will of God.

Hermann
Goering, Nazi leader at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II said,
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war…. But after all it is the leaders
of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter
to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…. Voice or no voice, the
people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce
the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

In all
honesty, I can’t begin to determine who is right and who is wrong. We
have the neo-cons who want to destroy OPEC by privatizing the oil –vs-
the Texas oil men who oppose this.[1] We have those who support Israel
and those who oppose the nation that didn’t come into existence until
1948 created by the United Nations. We have those who say “cut and run”
and others say those that died in Iraq would have died in vain if we do.

But
this much I do know, what we are fighting is spiritual and God will have
the final say-so but I can’t help but wonder if Lucifer and his fallen
angels are grinning and saying: “We will let the U.S. pursue its so-called
‘democratic ideals’ and let them think this war against terrorists will
be the end of all such wars. We can exploit this notion because we have
the U.S. right where we want it. They are debt-ridden from war expenditures
and unconstitutional entitlements and if they finally decide that invading
Iraq was a big mistake and pull out, things could get worse but if they
stay, more home-grown terrorists will be born, live, and be taught that
both the U.S. and Israel must be destroyed.” Like Plato observed more
than two thousands years ago, “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Only peace will reign when Jesus returns.

Betty is a former Oregon Republican party activist
having served as state party secretary, county chairman, 5th congressional
vice chairman and then elected chairman, and a precinct worker for many
years but Betty gave up on the two-party system in 2004 and joined the
Constitutional Party.

President
Bush said on October 6, 2005 that “Wars are not won without sacrifice
and this (Iraq) war will require more sacrifice.” But I say we’d have
no wars if the leaders who want these wars would have to put themselves
or their children on the front lines.